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Central Committee

British

noun

(in Communist parties) the body responsible for party policy between meetings of the party congress: in practice, it is in charge of day-to-day operations of the party bureaucracy

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Ma’s last disclosed appearance was at a plenary meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee in October.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

They will vote around 200 members onto the Central Committee, which in turn selects between 17 and 19 members of the powerful politburo.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

The appointment of Zhang Shengmin as second-ranked vice chairman of the Central Military Commission was announced at the end of a four-day Central Committee meeting.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

This was the largest midterm personnel turnover in the Central Committee since 2017, when 11 alternates were also promoted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

It was published by the Central Committee of the Komsomol in 1939, and anybody who couldn’t get hold of the physical book could read it as a serial through the hugely popular program Newspaper Novels.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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